What's For Dinner?

[snuffaluffagus]

How do you make your kapusta?

Yes, I'd like to know too please . I make mine pretty plain by frying some lean smoked bacon and onions, adding the sauerkraut, some water, salt, pepper, and a bay leaf or two and then simmering for 45 mins.. DS keeps asking for unpasteurized but it's 10$ a jar here . I'm thinking about making it from scratch the way my parents did when I was little....just have to find a way so that DH won't make a stink about the stink in his garage .

[frugal50]

dinner will be steak with fried white beans and anchovies.

[anisa]

veggie quesadilla

[SnowFlakey]

How do you make your kapusta?

I buy the Bick`s Sour Crout. Fry some onions (usually 1 large or 2 small) in Crisco, Rince the sour crout in a colander. Empty the sour crout into a pot, add the fried onions, take 1 strip of bacon (or a couple slices of kolbassa, cut into small pièces) and cut in to small pièces, add to sour crout mixture, add a few Peppercorns and add same amount of Juniper berries. Add water so that the sour crout doesnt burn and simmer on low until it starts to change colour. This can be used hot or cold and freezes very well. Use it hot with any pork meal or sausages; use it cold on hot dogs. My mother used to make her own way back when. I remember the house used to stick like crazy while it was fermenting! Im not that energetic unfortunately.

[SnowFlakey]

Yes, I'd like to know too please . I make mine pretty plain by frying some lean smoked bacon and onions, adding the sauerkraut, some water, salt, pepper, and a bay leaf or two and then simmering for 45 mins.. DS keeps asking for unpasteurized but it's 10$ a jar here . I'm thinking about making it from scratch the way my parents did when I was little....just have to find a way so that DH won't make a stink about the stink in his garage .

I always rinse the sour crout first. It changes the taste. Also i never use a bay leaf, not since a piece of one got stuck in my throat while eating spaghetti sauce. Learned my lesson.

[snuffaluffagus]

Ok, sauerkraut is definitely on the menu for the upcoming week .

This evening, we had a sort of shepherd's pie with a spinach salad. I made it with ground turkey, fried zucchini, and sweet potatoes. It doesn't look very appetizing but it really was delicious, lol. Every now and then, Costco has the ground turkey on sale at 5$ off per package of 4 (a total of approximately 2kg). That's when I stock up our feezer with a couple of months' worth.

[Natalka]

Aw, now I'm brought back to when my mom used to make her own sauerkraut in the big old crock in the garage - oh, it was SO good....

[KelJo]

its another freakin' cold, windy day, so I am going to make a big Sheppard's Pie and stick that in the oven.

[SnowFlakey]

Ok, lets see. Lunch today will be some homemade chicken soup with noodles that i made the other day with left over chicken bones. Supper tonight will be pork fried rice with the left over pork roast from yesterday. Havent decided on any side dishes for that yet. probably nothing else because i cant be bothered! lol Its too depressing outside today. Nothing by thunder and lightening storms and pouring rain! Cant believe its September already! Where did the summer go?

[Crochetlady]

Savoury hot dogs made with mashed potatoes left over from lunch

[SnowFlakey]

Savoury hot dogs made with mashed potatoes left over from lunch

I love hot dogs with mustard and relish and some kapusta if there is any left hanging around.! Hubby prefers hamburgers with mustard, cheese slice, tomato and lettuce.

[Zonny]

I'll skip the sauerkraut, or any form of cabbage thank you! Stinky when you cook it, and stinky after you eat it. My Mom used to make cabbage rolls that folks raved over, but I always peeled the cabbage off and ate the inside!

Tonight I grilled steak on the bbq, filled up my grilling wok with onion, carrot and zucchini ribbons using my slicer/dicer, some mushrooms and peppers too, tossed in olive oil, sea salt and fresh pepper. I'm fairly new to zucchini, it's a fairly mild veggie, can mix in with anything.

[frugal50]

for lunch, i did a salmon teriyaki with rice

dinner will be breaded porkchop and mashed potato

[harbie]

Friday was bbq chick thighs that I marinated overnight, buttery garlic rice and a yummy salad with an orange/lime vinaigrette I made. Last night was Butter Chicken, naan, raita and for "dessert" candy coated fennel seeds like you get in the restaurants.

[Zonny]

Buttery garlic rice sounds yummy!